Thomas Higerty was publican of the Windsor Castle in St John's Hill, Battersea, adjacent to Clapham Junction station. I discovered some articles in The Times between Dec 22 1869 and Jan 10 1870 regarding a railway signalman (Kemp) who was unable to continue working through exhaustion following an accident at Clapham Junction in December 1869. It appears that a collection was taken for him by Thomas Higerty who knew the Kemp family. Apparently Thomas was still serving behind the bar at the age of 90! The pub is still there, and a work colleague who has a flat in Battersea took some pictures of it for me a few months ago. - Note from Andy BEST Dec 2006

Thomas married Mary Ann WATTS, daughter of WATTS and Unknown, in Sep 1854 in Wandsworth, , Surrey, England. (Mary Ann WATTS was born in 1829 in Hillingdon, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England and died in Mar 1897 in Battersea, Surrey, England.)